Unless, of course, we're willing to barter with something else, such as our consumer profiles or our photo streams.
So they harvest what they need for their own consumption and operate a system of barter with what is left over.
Motorola was one of the first companies to develop patents for GSM phone service and has used them to barter with other vendors for years, keeping its licensing costs to a minimum.
There were no paying customers, only a barter deal with the Arizona Software Association.
The main accusations in the lawsuits can be split into two categories: revenue claimed to be from advertising that came from elsewhere (such as legal settlements), and revenue claimed to be from advertising that was not revenue at all (such as barter deals with ads swapped between Internet sites).
With barter, you include in your income the fair market value of property or services you received.
Money evolves to reduce barter costs, with some things working better than others.
Plus, there are tax advantages with barter, but also tax reporting requirements.
Note: Be sure you are comfortable with the complexities barter can introduce into your life and be up-front with your trade partner on the legalities.
In the dining room there's a five-panel Egyptian pictograph spanning the length of one wall. (As with many of his objects, Mr. Davis said he got it in a barter deal, trading it with the publisher of a popular book series for the use of his music.) At the center of the home is a 44-foot-tall, four-sided fireplace.
Even better, payment could be made in manufactured goods, with a barter system replacing payments in numerous instances.
Given that on average it takes only about two tons of alumina to produce one ton of aluminum, the barter deal may have left Iralco with more aluminum after processing the alumina than it supplied to Glencore.
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For example, with too much inventory and too little cash, barter can be part of a survival strategy in a bad economy.
Barter agreements can be written and quantified or they can remain loose, with a verbal agreement and a handshake.
As soon as an American wanted to trade with a Japanese person, they would have to strike a fair barter.
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Tim Barter, 32, from Brixton, awoke from a coma 10 days after his 25ft fall with a brain haemorrhage, shattered eye socket, and part of his skull removed.
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The trick was to cut small quantities of meat into paper-thin slices, season them with condiments, preserves, and spices, add whatever vegetables you could grow or barter, and keep adding until you arrived at a dish so tasty that you forgot how little meat was in it.
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